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Bushwick Avenue & DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn

3 historical photos taken here between 1923 and 1932, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Bushwick Avenue - DeKalb Avenue, 1923–1932

    Brooklyn: Bushwick Avenue - DeKalb Avenue

    1923; 1932

  • Brooklyn: Bushwick Avenue - DeKalb Avenue, 1923–1932

    Brooklyn: Bushwick Avenue - DeKalb Avenue

    1923; 1932

  • Brooklyn: Bushwick Avenue - DeKalb Avenue, 1932

    Brooklyn: Bushwick Avenue - DeKalb Avenue

    1932

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Brooklyn: Bushwick Avenue - DeKalb Avenue, 1923–1932

Photo 1 of 3 at Bushwick Avenue & DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Bushwick Avenue - DeKalb Avenue

1923; 1932

(1) 799 Bushwick Ave., at and adjoining the N.E. corner of De Kalb Ave. showing a frame house. September 9, 1932. P.L. Sperr. (2) The same, showing the former farmhouse of Andrew Stockholm in 1869. It is now the "Home for the Aged" conducted by the Little Sisters of the poor (R.C.). The Inebriates House for Kings County, incorporated May 9, 1867 established temporary quarters here on October 10, 1867. March, 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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